Article 3JQ6J Narrabri gas project fire risk unacceptable, firefighters say

Narrabri gas project fire risk unacceptable, firefighters say

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Michael Slezak
from Environment | The Guardian on (#3JQ6J)

The Santos project would be exempt from complete fire bans and allowed to flare gas, even in catastrophic fire weather

Firefighters with decades of experience working around the bushfire-prone Pilliga forest say Santos's controversial Narrabri gas project will create an unacceptable fire risk to workers at the site, as well as to surrounding properties.

Those firefighters, who have also opposed the project on other environmental grounds, say fires in the area can be so fast and ferocious that in some weather conditions the project site would need to be evacuated, since if a fire did start there would likely not be enough time to evacuate workers.

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